Priceline is now one of the biggest Internet companies in the world, but it wasn’t always that way. When Jay Walker co-founded the company in 1997 with Scott Case, it was more of a proposal: What if leisure travelers could use the Internet to find last-minute deals offered by hotels and airlines that want to clear excess inventory?
Walker, who has the itchy drive of an inventor-turned-entrepreneur, left Priceline in 2000, not long after the company’s blockbuster IPO. His latest venture, called Upside, returns him to the category.
April 26, 2017 at 10:01PM
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